Future characters

There's a lot more characters, both heroes and villains I'd like to put into the game but I realise that I shouldn't go too far in the first version.

I think that when the game finally gets to chapter four there will be at least another 24 playable characters. This has risen from 20 over the past two month as more and more ideas have came into my head.

Progress #3

I overloaed my main form and now I can't load the project file.

So I've gone back to basics and am building the game almost from scratch, but in order of the how the game play will work.

Fortunetly I can still access all the individual forms and the code so it's not all lost.

I'm currently working on the character selection board and the trivia contest.

To be honest, this is not the part of the game I enjoy, but I'm trying to be true to the original format and the trivia does add some extra play value.

I might leave a secret code in to bypass this and select the characters with greater ease.

I did like the memory game approach.

Progress #2

I have an idea for three more character. Two of the villains might make it into the first version. The other playable character might make a cameo in version one. Two of the new characters tie really well into my overall story idea.

The game play dynamic is working pretty well now. There's still one little bug that keeps repeating on me, but it causes one of two clear outcomes so I should be able to solve it.

I lowered the Autobot's HP and found that Decepticon wins don't work properly yet.

I started coming up with trivia questions but I have a lot more work to do on that. I'm going to get out the books and DVDs and find more.

The other thing I'm keen to get working is the AI, both for the Decepticons (who currently either randomly attack or use a default attack) and for the team leader (who currently just calls out Block! whatever the attack).

After that it's the fun stuff: special powers, events, some simple animations, and the design.